self renewal
explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.
self renewal
“You can do it like it’s a great weight on you, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.”
—Ram Dass
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
- Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption.
- Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption.
Tom Morgan • Tweet
If you relate to power as something to be opposed and fought, you have surrendered your own.
Emmett Shear on Twitter • Tweet
Hardship. Hard-'ship,' from the Old English word 'sciappan,' which means 'to shape' or 'to make.' Hard things shape us. Hard things make us
There’s even wisdom in the words themselves
“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
-Margaret Mead
We are very fluent in blunt, materialistic, capitalist questions: What? How soon? How much? What I hope that we can learn to do is add questions of moral imagination to that mix: questions like “Why?” and “To what human effect?” and “How much is enough?”
The On Being Project • Living the Questions
A leading indicator of personal growth is how curious you are able to be with all your emotions - especially the ones you weren't allowed to feel as a kid.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
Instead, I stopped trying to fit myself and Every into an old model of what a founder, software startup, or media company needs to look like. Those are all old ideas, from an older context. They can be useful when needed. But they’re dry and dead.
I’ve just tried to be honest about who I am, what I want, and what I believe to be true about the littl... See more
I’ve just tried to be honest about who I am, what I want, and what I believe to be true about the littl... See more